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Old 07-23-2015, 08:00 AM
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How's the dual soundbars sound?
Old 07-23-2015, 04:06 PM
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Originally Posted by Basslicks
How's the dual soundbars sound?
Sounds great actually, cant tell the rears there now though
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Originally Posted by Brandonrcm
Sounds great actually, cant tell the rears there now though
LOL!!! I was afraid you'd say that.
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I actually wish I just put the rear one forward along time ago now. But I got the soundbar for free off Anthony so its all good. Quite nice being able to hear my music without doors again.

Took a few cool pictures of the heep today.

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Old 07-24-2015, 03:17 PM
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How bad is it getting your foot into the rear seat with the cage there? I know it doesn't matter much - you don't sit back there, just curious though.
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Originally Posted by Basslicks
How bad is it getting your foot into the rear seat with the cage there? I know it doesn't matter much - you don't sit back there, just curious though.
Its not comfortable back there by any means. I'm a big fat dude, but i've been back there more times then I should of just for the hell of it or like putting my soundbar in. It actually isnt too bad to get in and out of. I thought when I got it back that there would be no way in hell I ever got in there.
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Originally Posted by Brandonrcm
Its not comfortable back there by any means. I'm a big fat dude, but i've been back there more times then I should of just for the hell of it or like putting my soundbar in. It actually isnt too bad to get in and out of. I thought when I got it back that there would be no way in hell I ever got in there.
lol.... yeah it's hard enough for me to get my size 13s in the back seat without the cage - not to mention folding my knees up into my chest... I could imagine it being more difficult with the cage.
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Burrito no longer overheats, lol my bro.
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Brandon really pushed himself and Burrito at Birthdayfest. Good times wheeling with all of you guys this weekend.
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Great photos Anthony. Had a blast, great weekend overall. Didn't break anything, actually my jeep is came home with something working better which is weird. Carpet is definitely coming out. End of birthdayfest we had the great idea to fly through some water with Anthony for a picture, only we were doorless.

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Old 07-30-2015, 12:09 AM
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Trashed my carpet at the badlands. It was fine until me and Anthony went for the cool picture in all the water at the end. Oh well Ive been meaning to get rid of it for some time now.

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Washed it all out
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Bought herculiner again, did the rock sliders, door jambs, and floor. Debating on doing the whole bottom half of the jeep in bedliner since the doors and quarters are scratched/gouged in spots pretty good.

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Quite a few things happened these past few days. Tuesday I got bedliner happy and did the lower doors and rear quarter panels, then I plastidipped my aluminum rims, repainted part of the cage, and painted my grill since its been faded. Then thursday I finally moved my exhaust back, put on a new turn down and hanger, now it doesnt heat up my rear brake lines, so no more loosing brakes for me! Then yesterday with the help of Anthony and Zac I finally put on the HDoffroad no lift shackle relocators I bought off Zac awhile ago. No more 2 different shackles for me! My unibody in the back is extremely messed up so the job took way longer then expected. Zac beat the crap out of the passenger side floor and unibody to get the box on decently. Also we had to drill and weld nuts on my rear bumper for the shackle boxes so that's finally tied in properly. Now my rear cut and fold sliders hang down because the bumpers actaully mounted right so we'll be redoing those soon. Jeep almost sits even now, same size shackles, just 1 hole different on each side. nice 45 degree shackle angle. My rear shocks are limiting my down travel now by a good bit.

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Looking all different n stuff
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Exhaust fixed!
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Hangs a little low but its temporary.
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Shackle box cut out, You can see the kink in one side of the unibody here.
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Shackle box installed!
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Flexd her out. Passenger side fully tucked
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Angle fully tucked, also you can see how the bumper is now in this picture, no worry we will fix it.
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Driver full droop. Wheel was half inch off the ground. Shock is limiting it a good bit. We got it to drop a lot more at Anthony's house when shocks werent attached.

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Again you can see the bumper here now. I built this bumper to fit on this jacked up jeep, now that its a little better I gotta modify the bumper more.

Cliffs trip this weekend coming up. Looking forward to that. Hopefully We will be building a rear shock cross member for my jeep soon here, and buy some decent not POS white body shocks.
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Looks a lot better with the bedliner and the plasti-dipped wheels man.
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